Guidelines

• Scripts must use set -euo pipefail
• All work should be done in a temporary directory (mktemp -d)
• Currently, only amd64 will be supported
• Must exit without rebuilding/repackaging if the program is already up-to-date

Building

• The directory for built programs is specified with the COMPILED_DIR environment variable, falling back to /compiled
  • Built programs should be .tar.zst files placed in $COMPILED_DIR/[package name]/
    • The archives should not contain a parent directory.
• Programs should be built on Debian, unless there's a specific reason not to.
• There should be a build branch for building the program.
• Versions
  • Old versions of the package should be removed
  • A file at $COMPILED_DIR/[package name]/version should contain the current version
  • There should be a symlink from [package name].tar.zst to the current version

Packaging

• The package repo is specified with the REPO_DIR environment variable, falling back to /repo
• Packages should be built on the distro they're for, unless there's a specific reason not to.
• There should be a branch named after the distro for each distro it's for, e.g. fedora for Fedora.
• Must grab all assets locally, must not require getting packages from a URL, even if it's available publicly and easily.
  • Extra optional functionality like that is okay though.
  • i.e. can't grab from here, must instead grab from $COMPILED_DIR/polycat/
• Must update the repo after building the package

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For an example, see polycat.